InsaneJournal

.. (soapbox_derby) wrote in fs_wireless, @ 2012-11-21 10:41:00

An unnamed Dutch man has been sentenced to six months' prison for threatening police officers with a heavily-modified Wii controller back in May.

Dutch news outlet De Volksrant says the man, 29, had transformed the remote into a "sniper rifle"; whether it was a custom job or he was simply using an off-the-shelf accessory is unclear.

What matters is that he threatened cops with it, the cops thought it was a real gun, and he's now looking at a significant amount of time behind bars for being an idiot.

Not only does the Dutch convict get 367 days (180 days conditional) jail time, but the two police officers get 3000 Euros worth of compensation from the convict, as the Dutch newspaper Volkskrant says. The judge came to this compensation for the officers and convict's punishment, because the police-officers have been put in life threatening conditions when the convict was aiming purposely with the mentioned modified Wii sniper-gun at the officers; the officers has fired warning shots because of this life-threatening conditions.

That 3000 Euros compensation for the police-officers sounds ridiculous. Is this like that everywhere, e.g. in the USA or UK?